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From:
Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject:
Re: qutebrowser does not load pages
To:
Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org>
Cc:
ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:36:46 +0100

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On 2026/09/10 11:11, Marco van Hulten wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to run qutebrowser-3.7.0 on OpenBSD/arm64 -current (ThinkPad
> X13s).  qutebrowser does not load any pages.  I am on last night's
> snapshot (base and packages).  Excluding config and loading a clean
> page:
> 
> marco@neutrino:~$ qutebrowser --temp-basedir https://openbsd.org/
> 10:29:19 WARNING: No physical devices
> [70215:34683714048:0910/102919.852395:ERROR:../../../qtwebengine-everywhere-src-6.11.1/src/3rdparty/chromium/dbus/bus.cc:408] Failed to connect to the bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
> 
> (process:70215): GLib-CRITICAL **: 10:29:51.109: g_main_context_pop_thread_default: assertion 'stack != NULL' failed
> 
> The page does not load, neither does ':help'.  Could this be
> OpenBSD[/arm64] specific or should this be reported upstream?
> 
> Recently, when on -stable with qutebrowser-3.7.0, this was not an issue.  
> 
> 
> Apropos, upstream on Github there are many open issues, often related to
> freezes (which I have been having over at least a year) or pages not
> loading (as written here).  My vague understanding is that there is a
> fast-moving software stack below qutebrowser (Python Qt, chromium),
> which probably means that such issues will keep on popping up.
> 
> What I like most about qutebrowser is that I can browse the web without
> a pointer, using vi-like keybindings.  I may try Luakit or vimb.
> 
>  Marco
> 

qutebrowser works ok on amd64.

It's probably worth trying something else that uses qt6webengine and
see if that works, e.g. konqueror. That would help narrow things
down.